DISNEY employees celebrated 30 years of the company’s volunteering scheme by helping out at a school and offering careers advice to pupils.
As the home of the group’s European headquarters, Hammersmith was treated to a display of more than 300 cast members in Mickey Mouse ears creating the number 30, on Wednesday last week.
The ‘VoluntEARS’ spent the day helping at Melcombe Primary School, in Fulham Palace Road, painting a Mickey and friends mural, as well as offering career advice to young people online.
Tammy McFeggan, Disney’s director of corporate community affairs, said: “It was great to celebrate so many years of successful volunteering across 42 countries all around the world. In the UK alone, our cast members last year spent about 24,000 hours volunteering in local communities.
"Around Hammersmith, over the years our volunteers have done so much for the community. They have planted 40,000 bluebells in Fulham Palace Gardens, helped the charity Thames 21 to clear up the river and weeded out non-indigenous plants from Chiswick Eyot. Every Christmas, they deliver toys to local children’s organisations and host Christmas at the Bishop Creighton House care home in Lillie Road.
"All our cast members are so eager to help and have done so much for the community which is a great reason to celebrate."
